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'''MISS STEWART OF FOSS' REEL.''' Scottish, Reel (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by fiddler-composer [[biography:Duncan McKercher]], the "Dunkeld Paganini." Speculatively, McKercher's 'Miss Stewart of Foss' may have been Margaret, daughter of Joseph Stewart Menzies, Esq. of Foss, Perthshire, who, in Edinburgh in 1833 married the Rev. A.R. Irvine, minister of | '''MISS STEWART OF FOSS' REEL.''' Scottish, Reel (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by fiddler-composer [[biography:Duncan McKercher]], the "Dunkeld Paganini." Speculatively, McKercher's 'Miss Stewart of Foss' may have been Margaret (1809-1836), daughter of Joseph Stewart Menzies, Esq. of Foss, Perthshire, who, in Edinburgh in 1833 married the Rev. A.R. Irvine, minister of of Blair Atholl 1843-1867. McKercher also composed "[[Mr. Alexander Irvine's Strathspey]]" and thus may have composed a tune for each of the couple. Margaret died young, at age 26. The couple had one daughter. | ||
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MISS STEWART OF FOSS' REEL. Scottish, Reel (whole time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Composed by fiddler-composer biography:Duncan McKercher, the "Dunkeld Paganini." Speculatively, McKercher's 'Miss Stewart of Foss' may have been Margaret (1809-1836), daughter of Joseph Stewart Menzies, Esq. of Foss, Perthshire, who, in Edinburgh in 1833 married the Rev. A.R. Irvine, minister of of Blair Atholl 1843-1867. McKercher also composed "Mr. Alexander Irvine's Strathspey" and thus may have composed a tune for each of the couple. Margaret died young, at age 26. The couple had one daughter.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Duncan McKercher (A Collection of Original Stathspeys and Reels), Edinburgh, 1824; p. 3.
Recorded sources: